Island in H'tota sea
Measures are being taken to create a new island in the sea off
Hambantota using soil extracted from the Magampura Port area in the
future.
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Magampura Port construction |
The island is to be used to set up hotels to facilitate increasing
tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka.
A bridge will be set up connecting the land and the sea. Magampura
Port Chief Engineer Agil Hewageegana said ten million cubic metres of
soil has been extracted from the first phase of the Magampura Port
project and it is expected to dig up the same quantity of soil from the
second phase of the project.
However, a definite date has not still been decided to begin the
formation of this island.
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